Eve: A Novel of the First Woman

very rich in discriptions. Discriptive in a different fashion. Very vivid and lush!

If you take this book as a novel of a family in crisis, it's an engaging read. If you take it as anything more than that, you are apt to get your feelings hurt. While I thought it was engaging, I don't like it enough to recommend it.

I really liked this book. The voice of Eve was very powerful, lots of truth to it. Found myself wanting to tag pages where there was an especially true statement. Only complaint is that the writing was a bit uneven. Chapters switched voices of members of the family, a device which worked well in Poisonwood Bible, but sometimes the switch was less successful here. I know people will get...more

I really liked this book. The voice of Eve was very powerful, lots of truth to it. Found myself wanting to tag pages where there was an especially true statement. Only complaint is that the writing was a bit uneven. Chapters switched voices of members of the family, a device which worked well in Poisonwood Bible, but sometimes the switch was less successful here. I know people will get worked up about the liscense taken with biblical "fact", but she explains a lot of her reasoning at the end and I never read fiction to establish fact. If you want biblical truth, read the Bible!   hide

Interesting historical recreation but not very compelling. Details and narrative seemed sacrificed for overly poetic imaginings (I like poetic imagery when done well) and an awkward framework of Eve telling the story but focusing on the daughters voices as though first person.

THIS BOOK WAS A LITTE HARD TO READ AS IT GAVE ME SOME CONFLICT WITH WHAT IS BIBLICAL TRUTH AND THIS IS FICTION!! OTHERWISE, IT WAS A GOOD BOOK AND EASY FONT AND INTERRESTING VIEW POINTS. JUST READ IT AND UNDERSTAND THAT IT IS FICTION. YOU WILL FIND IT WILL GIVE YOU A VISION THAT STAYS WITH YOU A WHILE.

Enjoyed. Definitely worth reading. Worth reading.

Hated it, nothing like u imagine eve from the bible to be i never even made it past the 3rd chapter.....i dont recommend it to my friends read 2 chapters and hated this book, it is nothing like i pictured eve from the bible.

I was amazed at how Elissa combined her creativity with her disciplined scientific approach (biology tidbits) as she wrote the novel of Eve. Capturing the research of the Mesopotamian culture and the possible views and thoughts of Eve and her daughters/sons really delighted my mind and allowed me to think that God delights in allowing us to ponder the unknown, the gaps in what's...more

I was amazed at how Elissa combined her creativity with her disciplined scientific approach (biology tidbits) as she wrote the novel of Eve. Capturing the research of the Mesopotamian culture and the possible views and thoughts of Eve and her daughters/sons really delighted my mind and allowed me to think that God delights in allowing us to ponder the unknown, the gaps in what's recorded for us... some day we will be able to know in full.   hide

Very interesting point of view. Definitely fiction, but made me think...